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Most of the attempts have used multi-billion dollar techniques to reproduce the incredible pressures and temperatures in the center of the sun, where fusion occurs freely. Scientists have used either powerful magnets to keep the hot hydrogen plasma--at about 200 million degrees Centigrade--from touching anything physical or huge lasers to heat a small pellet of deuterium to similar temperatures...
What scientists say is exciting about so-called cold fusion reactions is that the equipment it requires is not nearly as expensive and the energy required to start the reaction is not as great...
...March 23 announcement of University of Utah scientists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann that they had discovered "cold fusion" triggered a huge scramble among physicists and chemists from Palo Alto to Moscow to verify their results...
...furious global race to be the first to confirm "cold fusion" has re-ignited a debate over the proper role of the press in scientific research...
Many scientists express grave concern over the hype they say the press has inserted into the fusion discoveries. Many note the wild tales of levitating trains that circulated in the popular press when high-temperature superconductors were discovered two years...